Good news if you have a roadside billboard plant. Vehicle miles traveled was up 0.7% for April 2026 and is up 1.2% for the first four months of 2026. The increased was the most pronounced in the North Central states and South Atlantic States. Miles travel declined in the West […]
Good news if you own a transit advertising company. Transit trips rose 9% in the third quarter of 2025 according to the APTA Third Quarter 2025 ridership Report. Heavy rail lead the way up 16%. The same trend is apparent for the first 9 months of 2025. Transit ridership increased […]
Good news for roadside billboards and transit advertising. US miles travelled increased 0.9% to 295 billion vehicle miles during August 2025 according to the FHWA August 2025 Traffic Volume Trends. Miles travelled increased 0.9% to 2,214 billion vehicle miles year to date. Miles travelled increase the most on the east […]
Good news for roadside billboards and transit in the latest miles travelled and transit ridership reports. Miles travelled on US streets and roads increased by 2.8% during the month of October 2024 according to the FHWA October 2024 Traffic Volume Trends report. Cumulative miles travelled was up 1.0% year to […]
Transit ridership is making a slow rebound after losing riders during covid. Here are the results of the American Public Transit Association 2Q 2024 transit ridership report. Total transit ridership increased by 6.1% during the second quarter of 2024. Total transit ridership is up 6.4% for the first half […]
US transit ridership was up 6.8% during the first quarter of 2024 according to the American Public Transportation Association First Quarter 2024 Ridership report. This is the 12th straight quarter of ridership improvement after steep declines during covid. The industry still has a ways to go to recover from covid. […]
Good news and bad news for OUTFRONT and the transit ad providers in the fourth quarter 2023 transit ridership figures. The good news is that transit passenger trips increased by 12% in the fourth quarter of 2023 and transit trips were up 16% for the full year 2023 according to […]
The FHWA November 2023 Traffic Volume Trends contains good news for roadside billboards Look that this FHWA chart of millions of vehicle miles traveled on all roads and streets. November 2023 million miles travelled was 263,557 or 1.3% above the pre-covid level of 260,326. Million miles travelled for the first […]
By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Rain from Hurricane Florence closed my entrance to Washington, DC’s Metro system (September 18). At another entrance — unblocked by standing water — I picked up a free newspaper with this sobering headline: “Behind Metro’s diving ridership: A millennial exodus.” […]
